Creating a Chef Cookbook for Windows

The Berkshelf documentation moved to the “official” Chef docs. I found it a little confusing but complete. The purpose of this post is to remind future self how to do this, without having to dig through the docs again. These instruction assume the following is installed

ChefDK Version 1.1.16
Vagrant
Vagrant winrm plugin
VirtualBox

I create a custom Windows 10 Vagrant box using Packer. Then added it to my computer using the following

vagrant add path/to/windows10min-virtualbox.box –name win10

I wanted to configure Test Kitchen to

Create a Windows 10 VM
Write smoke tests using Inspec
Run unit tests using ChefSpec
Use Berkshelf

Creating a Blank Chef Cookbook

Run the following command. -b will add a berksfile

chef generate cookbook COOKBOOK_NAME -b

Update the kitchen.yml file to look like the following

— driver: name: vagrant customize: memory: 2048 cpus: 2

provisioner:
name: chef_zero
always_update_cookbooks: true

verifier:
name: inspec

transport:
name: winrm

platforms:

name: win10
os_type: windows
shell_type: powershell

suites:

name: default
run_list:
recipe[COOKBOOK_NAME::default]
verifier:
inspec_tests:
test/smoke/default
attributes:

Testing your blank Chef cookbook and kitchen configuration

This should create the VM

kitchen create

This should run the default recipe

kitchen converge

This should run tests

kitchen verify

Run specs

chef exec rspec

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